An Empirical Study on the Application of Production-oriented Approach in Junior High School English Writing Teaching

Abstract

Junior high school is a critical stage for English learning, and writing teaching occupies an irreplaceable position in junior high school English curriculum. Traditional English writing teaching is teacher-dominated, focusing on knowledge indoctrination while ignoring the cultivation of students’ practical output ability, resulting in low learning enthusiasm and unsatisfactory teaching effects. As a localized foreign language teaching theory in China, the Production-oriented Approach (POA) advocates the teaching logic of "output-driven, input-facilitated and assessment-promoted", which is mostly applied to senior foreign language learners at present. This paper takes junior high school students as research objects, adopts experimental research method to explore the application effect of POA in junior high school English writing teaching. The results show that POA can effectively improve students’ English writing performance, optimize their learning attitude and cultivate good writing habits. On this basis, this paper puts forward targeted teaching suggestions, so as to provide practical reference for the reform and innovation of junior high school English writing teaching.